The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-17
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


cure pardon for the executed Anarchists
HoRATIo J. SPRAGUE claims to be the Oldest
United States consul as far as length of service
is concerned He was appointed to the consul
ate at Gibraltar forty-one years ago.
NINE. BoUoICAULT, the great Partisan shop
keeper has given about $10o000o as pension
fund for her employees. She has also founded
library and reading-room. and she gives her
employees share Ill the business.
SAYS Ruskin: None but the dissolute among
the poor look upon the rich as their natural en-
emies, or desire to pillage their houses and di
vide their property. None but the dissolute
among the rich speak in opprobr1ouS terms OF
the vices and follies of the poor.
THE pedestal of Samuel Morley's statue at
Bristol bears these words, taken from one of his
speeches: 81 believe that the power of England
is to be reckoned. not by her wealth of armies,
but by the purity and virtue of the great mass
of her population"
THOMAS NJ WALLER now consul general at
London and once Governor of Connecticut was
ragged little newsboy'on the streets when the
wealthy Mr. Waller of New London, met him.
adopted him, and gave him the education that
was the making of the future Governor
ACCORDING to the Newark Advertiser. of the
applications for help made to the Associated
Charity Organization in that city in 1882, seven
ty per cent. came from unworthy applicants.
Last year the ratio had fallen to eighteen per
cent. This shows at glance the value OF sys-
tenn in public charity.
LEWISTON Journal Nathaniel Hawthorne,
the great romancst and master of style, spelled
his name ssHathorn" when he was in Bowdoin
College It is so printed in the college cata-
logues. The late E. b. Washburne spelled his
name with an e. but ''Washburn" was name
enough for his fathers and brothers
NIAGARA falls is about to go to London under
the chaperonage of Paul Philippoteaux. A
1900 oo,x-.S NV tho famous paiutar of cyc1O-
ramas is to show our insular cousins something
of the wonders of the one thing American of
which even the most ignorant cockney has
heard something. Niagara falls will have a
great run IN London.
Mr.. GLADSTONE is grand old man, but not
above a pun, as when in a neighbours dairy
looking at the churns, recently he said: eve
both effect our separation by agitation. But
butter which is the result of your method. is
| the method of my result. However,. he added,
s'we shall both after good deal of turning eff
| feet the same thing eventually-the making OF
| Pat"
| KATE FIELD is lecturing in California on var
| ious TOPICS She is said to be most enthusiastic,
| however in her discourse the Mormon
| Iniquity" She makes her lecture on the ma
| gician of Gadshll' interesting, for she
ardent aduirer of Dickens. When young girl
| she heard him read night after night III New
| York, and then followed him to Boston. DICK
ems was heard to remark that Kate Field was
1.-The best audience he ever had
| THE blind clergyman, Rev. W. II. Milburn,
| will again be a candidate for the chaplaincy of
| the House of Representatives. Several Wash
| ington preachers will be his rivals for the $500
position of spiritual adviser to the peoples rep
| resentatives During the last session of Con-
gress DR.. Miburn attained national reputa-
| ton for originality. He has probably attracted
| more attention than any chaplain the lower
house ever had. His frank denunclatlons OF
| hayward Congressman were among the most
| interesting features of the last session.
| MEDICAL journal gives the following cure
for whooping cough, which is said to be most eff
| fectual The method consists in fumigating
| with sulphur the sleeping ROOM as well as any
| other room used by the patient. together with
| his bedding, clothes, toys. and everything winch
| he uses. The sulphur is simply burned In the
| apartments. while the clothes are hung up in
| any convenient manner. and the rooms remain
| closed and subjected to the fumes for about
| FIVE hours. Everything is then well aired, and
| the rooms once more ready Tor the occupa-
ton of the sufferer.
| S S. Cox has been very fortunate in his liter
ary ventures from financial standpoint. He
made from $40, 900 to $l5, 900 out of his ''Three
| Decades of Federal Legislation" His "Prink-
| ipos' is selling WELL His publishers think that
..The Diversion of Diplomat VIII bring Mr.;
| sum for the book and will pay him a fair roy
| atty on every copy sold. Mr.. Cox works very
rapidly On push ne can car turn turn out out, one ne
~
| early as o'clock in the morning. He makes
| use of a stenographer
REV CHARLES A. BERRY. the probable sue
cessor of Henry Ward Beecher in the pulpit of
| Plymouth Church, sis tilirty-fve years of age,
and an eminent representative of English Con-
gregationalsm. From his church at Wolver-
| hampton he has organized great mission. work
among Golfers and foundrymen. The following
personal description is given Of him: In per
size. of wiry frame. dark brown hair, dark
mustache, and full beard. cut close: His APP
| strength In the pulpit his voice is strong,
clear and penetrating, and his manner both
earnest and pleasing.
Our in Arizona the wife of General Crook is
spoken of as public benefactor. While trav-
cling across the Territory two years ago she
threw handful of water crosses out of the
car window and they fell into brook which
the railroad followed. The current carried
them into a soft, marshy place, where they at
once took root and grew. Eventually they
| spread along the banks of the stream and